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The Cleveland Browns have been the NFL’s biggest laughingstock in the Super Bowl era, so it’s only fitting that a ceremonial moment included a level of slapstick comedy.
Earlier today, the Cleveland Browns revealed their new alternate helmets for the 2025 NFL season. The alternate helmet is black, with the club’s signature orange stripes running down the middle:
all in the details 🔎@DUDEwipes | #DawgPound pic.twitter.com/spPI8FiBOm
— Cleveland Browns (@Browns) July 23, 2025
The football team decided to hold a special alternate helmet reveal ceremony on Lake Erie. A few media members were on the platform to shoot the special moment, but it went awry for one unlucky photographer.
(Queue the reference to Bobby Darin’s legendary 1958 hit song, “Splish Splash”):
The most Cleveland Browns clip of all time.
As they take the tarp off to reveal the new brown helmet, a photographer falls off the raft into the lake. pic.twitter.com/Q9qrf2eqz2
— Ohio’s Tate (@BarstoolTate) July 23, 2025
Only the Cleveland Browns, folks. It could only happen to them.
Fortunately, there are no signs of shark life in Lake Erie, so the photographer had nothing to worry about there. Hopefully, the Browns did that unlucky photographer right by giving them a consolation prize, such as free tickets to the home opener.
The Browns were one of the busiest teams in the offseason, extending superstar edge rusher Myles Garrett (four years, $160 million) and reshaping their quarterback room. They signed old friend Joe Flacco, traded for Kenny Pickett and drafted two rookies in Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel and Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders.
Flacco is reportedly the front-runner for the starting QB job, but it remains a fascinating four-man competition with training camp underway.
Kevin Stefanski and the Browns will try to kick off the 2025 season on a high note when they welcome Joe Burrow and the archrival Cincinnati Bengals on Sept. 7.
